Improvement in shoe-brushes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

CARL HEROLD, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,581, dated September 16, 1879; application filed December 14, 1878. r a

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL HEROLD, of the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Brushes, of which the following is a specification, which will clearly indicate wherein theimprovement consists.

The drawing is a perspective view of my device.

- The invent-ion relates to a brush in which the handle is made separate from the polisherback and carries two wipers at its opposite ends, as will hereinafter be more particularly pointed out in the claim. y

A indicates the ordinary polishing-brush, and H a handle, which is pivoted to A at s, and carries in its opposite ends wipers D and B, the latter having a sunken head or cavity for holding the blacking or blacking-boX. In some cases I cover this cavity with a pivoted cover, M.

It will be seen that the handle is made in one piece with the wipers, and can be turned upon its pivot to bring either wiper into use, as may be desired. 7

' ,The cover may carry a mirror, and the box is made removable from its cavity. The handle being removable from A enables me to apply it to another polisher when desired.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The shoe-brush herein described, consisting, essentially, of the polisher A, handle H, pivoted to the latter at s, made in one piece, and carrying at its opposite ends wipers B and l), the wiper 13 having a concavity for carrying the blacking-box, as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

' CARL HEROLD. Witnesses:

J osEPH BREIL, ALEX. MGFARLAND. 

